Il pastor fido

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discussed in biography

...behaviour caused by mental disturbance. Guarini found the position uncongenial and retired in 1582 to his ancestral farm, the Villa Guarini, where he wrote his celebrated dramatic pastoral,
Il pastor fido (“The Faithful Shepherd”). Written and revised over a period of many years, this pastoral tragicomedy, set in Arcadia, was published in 1590 and first performed at the...

example of tricomedy

...preceding century. The vogue of tragicomedy may be said to have been launched in England with the publication of John Fletcher’s
Faithfull Shepheardesse (
c. 1608), an imitation of the
Pastor fido, by the Italian poet Battista Guarini. In his
Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry (1601), Guarini had argued the distinct nature of the genre, maintaining it to be a third poetic...

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